P0: Submit dev.to article to Hacker News + r/golang — top-of-funnel launch #442
Description
Problem
GoSQLX has a clone/view ratio that proves product quality (595 unique cloners in 14 days vs 113 unique viewers) but almost zero top-of-funnel discovery. The entire growth gap is awareness, not product.
The dev.to article "I benchmarked every Go SQL parser in 2026 and built my own" exists, is well-written, technically credible, and tells the right story — but has never been submitted to Hacker News or r/golang.
Evidence
| Channel | 14-day views | Signal |
|---|---|---|
| All sources | 584 views, 113 unique | Extremely low reach |
| 46 views, 19 unique | Primary discovery is organic search | |
| reddit.com | 6 views | Not posted yet |
| dev.to article | Live but undistributed | Content exists, no amplification |
xwb1989/sqlparser (abandoned since 2018, MySQL-only) has 1,578 stars. GoSQLX is technically superior on every dimension and zero-CGo. The gap is purely discoverability.
Actions
- Submit the dev.to article to Hacker News Show HN — title: "Show HN: Pure-Go SQL parser with no CGo, 8 dialects, 1.38M ops/sec"
- Best time: Tuesday–Thursday, 9am–12pm US Eastern
- Respond to every comment personally; the HN audience rewards engagement
- Post to r/golang — link to dev.to article with framing: "I needed a pure-Go multi-dialect SQL parser without CGo — here's what I found and what I ended up building"
- Submit to golangweekly.com newsletter (sub-issue or same)
- Submit to golangnews.com
Expected Impact
A well-timed HN submission of quality technical content like the dev.to article typically generates 50–200 upvotes. That translates to 500–2,000 GitHub visits and a likely 2–3x star increase in a single day. Crossing 100 stars is a credibility threshold that changes how new evaluators perceive the project.
Notes
Issue #241 was marked wontfix because the original launch window passed. v1.13.0 (ClickHouse dialect, MCP server, VS Code extension, MariaDB, GitHub Action, WASM playground) is a far stronger story than the original Apache-2.0 relicense moment. The window is now.